Swedish far-right go bananas with call for foreign food ban

A regional branch of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party has proposed a ban on importing foreign foods in its budget for 2017.

Concerns over immigration helped take support for the nationalist party to 12.9 per cent across Sweden in the 2014 general election. The party has regularly recorded over 20 per cent support in opinion polls this year.

The ban on the purchase of foreign food appeared in local 2017 budget proposals in the Alvesta municipality in southern Sweden where the Sweden Democrats are the joint third-largest party on the council.

The Smålandsposten newspaper reported that the draft budget included the demand that “organically produced products are desirable but the most important thing is that food is locally produced, that is to say, Swedish”.

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